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It should be enough to look at the IP address.
by forgotmypw 7y ago
It should be enough to look at the IP address.
- kuba-orlik 7y agoYeah, but all traffic from googlevideo.com is uncapped, but traffic from google.com is... how do they know which IPs to block? Youtube has like a ton of them and they probably change from time to time. If it's IP-based, how do they compile a list of IPs that are guaranteed to be youtube video content, but not anything else?
- emayljames 7y agoI'd imagine it will get more difficult for ISP's if encrypted DNS becomes standard. At this moment, they will have allowed IP ranges, that would cover for example; YouTube. Edit: Also, an ISP can always see what your endpoint is, as they would have to in order to give you the connection. The only exception to this being VPN's and TOR.
- forgotmypw 7y ago>Youtube has like a ton of them and they probably change from time to time. While that's true, it is not that many IPs, and they do not change that much. Maintaining a list of IPs for YouTube, Netflix, and other mainstream services is probably a couple hours of work per week at most, probably distributed between multiple people in whatever department handles it.